rolling pop 2011

i had no idea

haha kanye deserves kim

(not that i have the slightest idea of ~what she's like~ having never actually experienced her in whatever her natural habitat is)

their existence is kind of ridiculous enough as it is, and something about the blithe inappropriateness of it all really appeals to me

this is a good defense tho -- i feel like rich j. would approve!

definitely I agree with that! it's like - why shouldn't kim k release an album at this point

I just feel more like why should she exist?

defending ppl like her turns one into an extreme capitalist -- she exists because the market demands that she exist

I don't recall being an extreme capitalist at any point in my life.

i just find it way less offensive that "career" pop stars who i feel are talentless or obnoxious or unredeemable, like katy perry or ke$ha - the idea of kim kardash, paris h &c making music is really no more ridiculous than that.

also there's the idea of setting what is really a very weird existence - like why should they exist? why do they? it feels very unstable, like it shouldn't exist, and yet there they are larger than life - setting this to music. on which note, this speculative village voice blog on kim and terius is AMAZING http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/2010/11/the_ballad_of_k.php

*than

http://img261.imageshack.us/img261/705/779544flvej5.gif

kim might make a good record, anything's possible, but people being excited about the idea of someone making music before they've heard them sing is pretty dumb imo.

and i have nothing against her existing or being famous -- unlike paris, she's at least hot (and it's not like there aren't plenty of other celebrities who aren't basically just famous for being hot)

plus DAT ASS

― The Brainwasher, Saturday, January 8, 2011 3:28 AM (6 hours ago)

^^gets it

cher lloyd and lil wayne! http://twitpic.com/3phtkk

Do you guys think that any radio stations considered censoring the part in "grenade" Where bruno Mars sings "ill take a bullet thru the brain for yaaaaaa" like how they retroactively bleeped "blew up like the world trade" in "juicy"

No, but now they will. Good going!

stump is the god

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4WtSIPRZBk&feature=player_embedded

i like the new akon single a lot & i have always hated his singles

So Britney debuts at #1, Avril at #13, and "Ham" at #23. Wiz enters the top 5.

i think "hold it against me" is really good -- wish the synths were less guettafied but whatever -- love the hook tho, very house diva -- dubstep-y bridge is nice too

i think the avril is kind of a mess tho -- it has that same cheerleader sorta thing going on as "girlfriend" but as a song it's just way less interesting & fun

& her voice is just absurd, still

I haven't heard either and don't really care enough to remedy that.

the t.i./chris brown really has nice production, but it's such a shit song in every respect

i kind of love the Avril (and i hated "Girlfriend")

pink lookin hella robyn right here

http://i54.tinypic.com/21dlzmd.png

There's an unexpected piece in this week's EW about why Robyn can't seem to crossover in the US. In short, too many people who sound like her are crowding the market. Now Pink's trying to cop her look too, I guess.

much as i don't like pink i'm going to give her the benefit of the doubt and say that was just a coincidence and that the photo just happens to look unusually robyn-esque. i mean, the two don't look that different to begin with and pink has always gone for the androgynous thing.

one of my old friends talked to me the other day and he lol'd about how she (robyn) is going to open for katy perry's tour.

god someone find my long post from last year about how exasperated I am with the "{female pop singer x} is stealing {female pop singer y}'s look!}" conspiracy theories.

btw one of the reasons Robyn isn't a huge star in America is she looks mannish even compared to Pink

pink looks more like herself than robyn in that picture

femme fatale lipstick + lacy bra showing + smoky eyeshadow = not very robyn at all, in fact

xp and also because while robyn's material may be stylistically pop in every respect, from the hooks to the production, her vocals are much more diffident and detached than most.

if robyn was popular would she have this much critical attention?

why not? her most successful singles are usually the ones that get the most critical attn

what is it that critics like about her, that makes her stand out, that doesnt resonate w/ the general public?

idk why the public doesn't like her tbh and i don't really care that much. in 2007 america didn't like her b/c she looked like a dude but i guess ppl would be more receptive to that now.

also

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQmEd_UeeIk

Am trying to think of moments in Avwiw videos where she has hate for people trying to do their jobs. Taxi theft in this, shoving over hot dog man in "Complicated"... are there others?

(song itself = congratulations, you are the League One Ke$ha)

I know it was released last year but Charice - Pyramid is fucking gorgeous. That's all.

http://i51.tinypic.com/2rzw9xt.jpg

this would be frontrunner for single of the year if it was a straight akon song w/ no flo rida -- in any event i still think the hook is awesome and can tolerate the flo rida parts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZWr8X2OziU

when i say "tolerate" flo rida, i'm using a different level of toleration -- it's not like tolerating ants biting your ankles like w/ some of the worst drake raps, it's more like tolerating sitting in a waiting room w/ no reading material

i should note that i mean "single of the year SO FAR"

The lyrics for the new Lady GaGa single (it's being premiered at the Grammys I think) have been released:

http://www.twitlonger.com/show/8e8bt7

They're... really really bad.

damn, FREE RED ONE

I think this is the worst bit:

DON'T BE A DRAG, JUST BE A QUEEN
WHETHER YOU'RE BROKE OR EVERGREEN
YOU'RE BLACK, WHITE, BEIGE, CHOLA DESCENT
YOU'RE LEBANESE, YOU'RE ORIENT
WHETHER LIFE'S DISABILITIES
LEFT YOU OUTCAST, BULLIED, OR TEASED
REJOICE AND LOVE YOURSELF TODAY
'CAUSE BABY YOU WERE BORN THIS WAY

NO MATTER GAY, STRAIGHT, OR BI,
LESBIAN, TRANSGENDERED LIFE
I'M ON THE RIGHT TRACK BABY
I WAS BORN TO SURVIVE

lol i'd never heard of "Fernando Garibay" so i looked him up on wiki & he's definitely a classic case of "random pop/rap/r&b producer that obsessively updates their own wikipedia page w/ random productions that no one has heard of"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernando_Garibay

god this song is gonna be massive & holy shiiiit are these lyrics bad

that said lyrics have really never been that important to her music so w/e

scrolled past those Gaga lyrics -- i can't think of any situation where reading a song's lyrics before you can hear it would do you or the song any good at all

if the new gaga singles aren't at least really good we are all fucked -- feels like it will be so decisive